Mesa Public Schools has received a grant worth $900,000 over three years to train up to 24 teachers assigned to bioscience courses and to provide support for students researching the genome of a bacterium.
The Science Foundation Arizona grant will provide training for teachers at Mesa, Red Mountain, Mountain View, Westwood and Dobson high schools. Some [...]

Mesa Online Academy, developed to assist any student world-wide who needs an alternative or supplement to traditional education, now enrolls students wherever and whenever the need arises.
Using the Global Student Network’s popular Virtual Curriculum, Mesa Online Academy offers individual or full year courses for students in grades 2-12. Based on a program established to connect [...]

DeVry University has appointed Craig Jacob as president of the school’s Phoenix Metro, which includes DeVry’s main Phoenix campus and center locations in Northeast Phoenix and Mesa. Jacob previously held senior-level administrative positions with the University of Phoenix’s Grand Rapids, Mich. and Phoenix campuses. Jacob assumes a role previously held by James Dugan, who has [...]

Recipients Accept Award at Event Celebrating 25 years of Nucleus Cochlear Implant Technology. Cochlear Americas today announced the recipients of the fifth annual Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, an award that recognizes the remarkable achievements of Nucleus® cochlear implant recipients.
“Each year we are amazed at the quality of the entries we receive for the Graeme Clark [...]

Cochlear Americas today announced the recipients of the fifth annual Graeme Clark Cochlear Scholarship, an award that recognizes the remarkable achievements of Nucleus(R) cochlear implant recipients.
“Each year we are amazed at the quality of the entries we receive for the Graeme Clark Scholarship—there are so many young people with cochlear implants who are excelling [...]

Hundreds of college-bound students whose parents draw state salaries could find themselves disqualified from receiving private financial aid this year because of the recently passed “Ethics in Government” initiative.
Amendment 41, approved by voters in November, bars state employees and their dependents from receiving “gifts” of $50 of more.
Curt Martin, director of financial aid at Mesa [...]

More than 60 scholarships were awarded to the graduates of the Tehachapi High School Class of 2006 on June 4.
“We are here to recognize excellence in the academics,” said THS Principal Michael Arredondo. “We have over $100,000 in local scholarships and well over $500,000 from outside our community.”
Counselor Dennis Ruggles then presented the class valedictorians.